Pablo Picasso

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"I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that have come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it."	Art
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."	Art
"Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken."	Art
"For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography."	Art
"Everything I need to know about Africa is in these objects."	Art
"It takes a long time to become young."	Age
"As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language."	Art
"But they are useless. They can only give you answers."	God, Computers
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."	Money
"My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."	Quotations
"The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."	Art
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."	Success, Imagination
"You can touch them with your eyes."	Success, Life
"My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."	Miscellaneous
"You can touch them with your eyes."	Family
"Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to."	Beauty
"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"	Art
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."	Work
"By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous � I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time."	Art
"When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form � one inevitably ends up with an egg."	Art
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